filth from mortal moon

hi guyz !! im makin a bit of a different post today. i wanted to share some album/ep covers that ive been thinking about recently cuz album art is so cool + i love all of these artists dearly. enjoy my rambles :D

Sign - Nobukazu Takemura (2000)

my pfp !!!! i discovered the title track sign from the album hoshi no koe, but this is the record it originally debuted in! takemura is a japanese electronic musician who makes a lot of experimental music, and this album is no different. however, it has sort of a.. nintendo vibe to it? it’s difficult to describe, but it’s super fun !! i love the album art as well and the rhythmic motion of the building. the little music note guy has my whole heart too, theyre jus a little goober <3

Paraiso - Haruomi Hosono and The Yellow Magic Band (1978)

i wouldve put this in yellow but there is no option. anywayz this is a interesting album. ive recently started listening to hosono’s music and i enjoy it a lot !!! hosono house is fire, but this one is also good ! the cover art is what initially led me to listening to this, i love the beach atmosphere and the sky as space. and the little bubbles that have random monuments in them. and the palm trees n plants and agh. it’s delightfully surreal and im here for it !!!

S-F-X - Haruomi Hosono (1984)

look hosono you’re awesome and i love your early stuff so far. but i could not get into this ep at all. might try again tho !! but it’s really a shame because the cover is awesome. i love the distortion on the face and the pops of pink and yellow against the teal background. it’s very pleasing to look at and it’s been floating in my mind for awhile. very futuristic lookin !

Sail - Masakatsu Takagi (2003)

I AM THE ULTIMATE TAKAGI FAN #1 anyway. this album is so so lovely and silly. it has a special place in my heart now fr. the best way to describe it is animal crossing/picopop(??) type music. some of it reminds me of kero kero bonito’s music too. idk genres are weird !! point is it’s very upbeat and nostalgic. a few tracks are more somber sounding, especially rama. but i love the album art of this one, it’s like something you’d see in a dream or a childhood memory. i love the watercolor texture and the blend of pastel colors too!! and how it looks as if it was combined from multiple layers, as in each piece of the figure was made separately. overall takagi is a genius and this album SLAPS

Keep It Unreal (10th Anniversary) - Mr. Scruff (2009)

mr. scruff makes very cheeky and silly electronic music, but occasionally he drops an absolute banger. nah fr all of his stuff is good, some of it is just more “serious” than others. but i appreciate his sense of humor and the beats he makes ! this album of his is a great listen, but i especially love the cover. the og album cover is mounted up in the corner while these little bean guys are celebrating. truly a work of art. his other album ninja tuna also shares a similar art style !! very goofy <3

A Wizard, a True Star - Todd Rundgren (1973)

do i gotta say anything even. this is just a masterpiece of a cover. there is so much going on in the best way possible. i love the incorporation of the geometric shapes. the trippy visuals. it screams 70s. not to mention this album is fire. international feel is so good !!!

Desire, I Want to Turn Into You - Caroline Polachek (2023)

PHOTOGRAPHY JUMPSCARE ! i recently go into caroline polachek and OML where have you been all my life. this album is pure pop bliss and her vocals are so so good. sunset and fly to you are especially good oug. the album cover in particular is very simple in concept but it’s executed so well. the lighting, the sand, the bus chairs, her outfit?? absolutely stunning. this woman oozes creativity fr.

Dreams - Gabor Szabo (1968)

i could not find a better quality image of this one but holy molay this is a great jazz fusion record. is it fusion? idk anymore. but this is a great album and the art is just. mwah. i love all of the intricate details and the flowers. it’s just gorgeous !!! what else can i say !

Dead but Dreaming - vivivivivi (2023)

final one !!! vivivivivi is honestly super underrated, though her song credits song for my death has 8 million views on yt. anyway, this was a pretty recent album from her and it’s very cool !!! def gives the vibes of an rpg. i love the album cover tho!! the artist did a tremendous job with it, i love the overgrowth of the flowers and the shading. it also suits the tracks well !!

Songs that I really like ^_^

Songs under cut js incase it lags someone's tumblr ^^

hello friends. i am thinking about this album. I really like this. I am handing this to you as such.

amazing album. will be on repeat for the next few months

As an initial offering to the tumblr gods, have this song I have probably listened to the most in the last 2 years. Its like exactly the vibe I love the most and I need other people to be as absolutely feral for this song as I am.

vivivivivi listeners RISE

I love when I listen to someone like Cosmo Shelldrake, Vivivivivi, or Will Wood, and like the somber bliss I feel makes the cells in my body forget to be alive for a moment.

Absolutely decomposing and dead-pilled.

some characters from @nyermian's mortal moon

(love how the cops have pig elements in their design and it's NOT subtle)

im working on a remix of "Credits song for my death" by vivivivivi

this is how it sounds so far

My OC Daniella but her colors were colorpicked from the in my head by vivivivivi album cover

Proof :P

vivivivivi save me

vivivivivi

Save me vivivivivi

Credits Song for my Death, but I'm the Final Boss [ft. Astron Animations]

"Here we are again, joined together in meeting a final end. I thought it cruel when what lay beyond the final gates wasn't the salvation I sought. Dreams held to fruition? A painless death? Even a credits reel, to honor what facsimile of a life I've lived, was for naught. It was but another entrapping cycle of torment. I once thought. Now... now I am an arbiter of torment. Pain dealt to others as it was unto yourself is a rather poor substitute for even a single choice, for a real life. What..." He clutches his mask with his gloved hands, dropping his weapons in his self-inflicted suffering. "...but what is a real life? Is this any less real, the two of us living and dying in this moment? Doesn't this make you feel like you're you aren't merely a pitiful existence consigned to a single sphere of reality, one utterly doomed to collapse the moment your gods avert their gaze? Doomed to begin again at their most petty whims? This power, I'm feeling... it's a mote in a storm compared to my jailors, but it's power I have earned. I've never held a gun before. Nothing but running, running... RUNNING! My cowardly soul wishing to escape the shortest of the two fates dealt to me...!" They made out a muffled snarl through their mask, the horrid memories that made up his psychological scabs bleeding him with all the dryness of crippling wounds. Mentally adrift, they pulled at the greater of their two implements experimentally, but the sword appeared to be wedged firmly into the ground. In their attempts, they began to bleed after feeling the barest touch of it's blade, cutting through glove and flesh both, but they don't even notice. It's mind has become too wounded for it's body to tell the difference. As blood spilled onto the weapon, they continued. "I've never swung a sword, either, and yet, it's as though the very essence of my being- that gift of divinity tucked inside, demands I rend you asunder in a rictus of hate. All my mental fortitude forged through trials beyond the unfathomable is what it takes from me, to not simply gun you down where you stand. I can feel myself slipping, even as I'm being reduced to my basest impulses. I should be fighting the darkness that's forming, like a shadow a the edge of my vision pulling me into itself. Shouldn't I? And yet... I can't help but enjoy this. Revelling in a sensation of power..."

They spun the revolver's chamber with a flick of a wrist, their firearm clicking and clacking with all the subtlety of a bedframe coming undone at the seams. Eventually, it hesitantly came to a stop of it's own accord.

Their gaze eventually drifts from their gun to you. Somewhat crudely, they pull their blade from the ground, unsettling the earth and revealing twice it's length to the open air. Their gun resting at their side, they point the absurd hunk of steel in your direction.

With their shooting hand, they roughly tear off the bottom of their mask to reveal two rows of sickeningly sharp teeth, bared into a grin so wide it threatens to bleed at their gums.

They let the grin close before releasing a deep gasp. Lungs take in the stale, oxygenated air with veritable greed, allowing sort of horrid, wheezing noise to escape from bared teeth, like an animal being dashed across the rocks in a terrible storm. Like a company of soldiers despairing at the sound of a shield wall's collapse- a sound that would seal their fate.

Their breathing slows, and the blood dripping from their face ceases it's movement. The blood dripping from their hand ceases it's movement. And, for a mere moment, you can feel even the blood in *your* very body cease it's movement.

It's time.

"Finally. This will all come to an end."

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Credit to Astron Animations for the remix and art.

Additional credit to vivivivivi for creating the original song that came to inspire this amazing remix- great in it's own right, too.

Album rec - Untitled by vivivivivi

This is the artist that created credits song for my death! This album has that nostalgic 8-bit 00s vibe that I loved. If you’re into weirdcore/webcore or those “the internet raised you” 00s playlists you’ll probably like this.